I went big for Saturday morning breakfast. I was making fresh blueberry pancakes with the biggest blueberries I’d ever seen. Full of weekend morning energy, I had the batter made, the blueberries washed, and was emptying the dishwasher while heating up the pan for my first batch.

Meanwhile, my toddler was playing with a remote control car as he waited for breakfast. I pulled the warmed maple syrup from the microwave and poured my first batch of batter into the pan. I was delivering the syrup to the table when my son asked for help with the remote control car that was spinning out of control.

As I reached for the car, I tipped the syrup beaker and poured it on the floor. Then I lost hold of the spinning car and it dropped into the syrup and started spinning in it. I went to cover my mouth, probably an instinct to make sure a swear word didn’t come out, and got syrup all over my face.

It was big…a big mess. But I finally got the car and the beaker of syrup corralled into the sink, cleaned up the floor, then wiped my face AND didn’t burn the pancakes! Then I laughed about my perfect storm all day long. 🙂 🙂 🙂